The Stadium, which had also opened back in 2004. It began as a conversation between a few friends about the need for a real sports bar in Maine. Not some little tiny thing with a few TVs tacked to the wall, but a legitimate mega-sports bar that you find in cities like Boston and New York. People said that Portland was too small, that there weren’t enough true sports fans here to make it happen. The naysayers were wrong. The Stadium bet on the Portland sports fans, and those fans have been coming to the Stadium by the thousands ever since.